Santa Barbara to San Pedro
Santa Barbara Harbor at first light
Off before sunrise with a skeleton crew – even without much sleep, I love getting up and off the dock early like this… We put all the dock lines and fenders away quickly whenever we are moving on the Baylis. Once they are stowed, I go up to the bow and enjoy first light as we leave the harbor for San Pedro.
Bird munched polystyrene cup
Our first debris recovery this morning was a styrofoam coffee cup that we spotted from a long way off… we were not too far offshore, and the wind had blown the cup into our path… as we approached, a seagull landed next to it, and began taking bites out of it. We scared the bird away, retrieved the cup, and took a GPS point, as we do on all of our retrievals… It’s tough to think that may happening all over the world everyday…
The expedition will have a big change from here on out – more boat traffic, the night sky not so dark, and the air and water close to shore has the color of the industrialized world. We pass Ventura, Point Dume, and take a line straight across Santa Monica Bay to Palo Verdes, keeping L.A. well of the port side… We round the peninsula to San Pedro doing 9Kts, and enter the breakwater of the Port of Los Angeles. Big day on the water, we tied-up, eat, and hunkered-down for the night. Here’s a short video of the main sail coming down at the lighthouse…
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